bad_dad_brad
Member
Ouch!
I was loading a new Bushmaster factory 10 round magazine for my Bushy AR15. Ten rounds right? Well, ten rounds do not work. I have a habit of always loading one round shy of full capacity in any magazine, but tonight I was feeling cocky and I loaded ten rounds.
First off, the magazine, to be seated properly with a full capacity, required a solid whack from the bottom. I mean get me a hammer. And then when I went to chamber a round the bolt jammed and the smell of fresh unburnt gun-powder reached my nose.
Try as I might, the magazine could not be removed, nor the bolt moved as well. Oh crap I thought, what is with this? The ammo is white box Win, no big deal. So I proceed to dismantle the rifle, but after pushing the rear pin back I can't separate the lower from the upper!!
With all my might I put pressure on the two parts and bang! I cut a chunk of skin out of my chin as the upper part of the rifle finally separated from the lower and whacked me in the face. Blood is everywhere.
Then I look at the jammed round. It is bent, deformed, and as you can see in this picture, dangerously damaged. This is making me re-think my fondness for the AR15. I never had this problem in a Mini-14.
Anybody else run into this problem? God my chin hurts!
Here is the deformed cartridge.
I was loading a new Bushmaster factory 10 round magazine for my Bushy AR15. Ten rounds right? Well, ten rounds do not work. I have a habit of always loading one round shy of full capacity in any magazine, but tonight I was feeling cocky and I loaded ten rounds.
First off, the magazine, to be seated properly with a full capacity, required a solid whack from the bottom. I mean get me a hammer. And then when I went to chamber a round the bolt jammed and the smell of fresh unburnt gun-powder reached my nose.
Try as I might, the magazine could not be removed, nor the bolt moved as well. Oh crap I thought, what is with this? The ammo is white box Win, no big deal. So I proceed to dismantle the rifle, but after pushing the rear pin back I can't separate the lower from the upper!!
With all my might I put pressure on the two parts and bang! I cut a chunk of skin out of my chin as the upper part of the rifle finally separated from the lower and whacked me in the face. Blood is everywhere.
Then I look at the jammed round. It is bent, deformed, and as you can see in this picture, dangerously damaged. This is making me re-think my fondness for the AR15. I never had this problem in a Mini-14.
Anybody else run into this problem? God my chin hurts!
Here is the deformed cartridge.